You open the door to your barrack and look around at the lush, green forest surrounding the small encampment, you inhale deeply, enjoying the smell of the fresh pine in the air. "Couldn't ask for a better place to work, clear weather, no city noise," you say to yourself, you walk to the hanger that had the Blackhawk helicopter that you pilot inside. As you walk inside your two crew chiefs were looking the helicopter over for any defects, "good to go?" you ask, both crew chiefs gave you a thumbs up. You climb inside and begin the start up sequence for the main rotor, five minutes later you were rolling down the tarmac, an hour later you here flying at a steady speed over the forest.
"Hey Bryan take the stick for a minute" you say to your co-pilot as you check your location on the NAV. "Ok in an hour turn left 30 degrees and keep flying straight for another half hour and then we can begin testing to see if those techs fixed that tail rotor" you say. Just before you begin the stress test on the new rotor a warning light appeared flashing, WARN ROTOR FAIL on the instrument panel, "alright we're turning around, Bryan try to find us a clear area if we need to make a hard landing" you say to your co-pilot. "OK there's a clearing about a mile from here" says the co-pilot pointing on the NAV, you steer the BlackHawk toward it and for an hour you fight with the helicopter to keep it on course as it was veering left and right randomly.
Soon you had the BlackHawk flying at a height of about eight feet over a large clearing, "alright on three bail" you say, "one...two....three! Go" you shout. As soon as you shouted three, the two crew chiefs and co-pilot bailed out, but as you go to bail out you become snagged on something preventing you from bailing out. As you try to free yourself you see that the BlackHawk was nearing some trees, forcing you to pull up. You bring the helicopter back around in an attempt to try again, but before you could finish the turn there was an loud bang followed by the helicopter going into an out of control spin, the last thing you remember was the helicopter loosing altitude and then the sound of trees striking the nose before blacking out.
When you come to you find the BlackHawk laying on the forest floor in many pieces, with you still in the cockpit. You attempt to get out of your seat, but a sharp pain in your lower left abdomen area stops you, you look and see that a piece of the main rotor blades had broken off and stabbed you, literally nailing you to your seat.
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